Sentence examples for to ghastly from inspiring English sources

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to ghastly

adjective

Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.

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But the remains themselves testify all too clearly to ghastly torture.

But instead, this was self-indulgence ratcheted up to ghastly new heights.

The entire production is staged in what looks like a fairly typical teenager's bedroom (with a bathroom en suite, which is put to ghastly uses).

Eventually, Davies dreams of returning to the national team, which he enlivened and also betrayed, in a sense, by violating curfew and leaving himself vulnerable to ghastly circumstance.

(Anne Midgette) * 'SHOCKHEADED PETER' A gorgeous "nasty picture book" of a musical, in which badly behaved Victorian tots come to ghastly ends.

His collection still had a few Rucci specialties, like satin-and-sable storm coats and intricately seamed cashmere suits and a tendency to ghastly alien hair and makeup.

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It was a matter of some pride to me – ghastly vanity again – to draw back the veil on the deeply flawed structure of the financial system.

A visit to a south London drug rehab centre was supposed to alert Prince Harry to the ghastly plight of the drug abuser.

Part history lesson, part protest, the play uses a series of sketches to dramatize ghastly housing conditions and to condemn corruption, speculators and slumlords.

For now, anyway, it is much easier to imagine ghastly new biological weapons than to create them.

Bashar's stability – somewhat at doubt just now, to be sure – is preferable to the ghastly unknowns of a post-Assad regime.

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